We are joined by professional baseball and beach volleyball player Ryan Doherty, @RyanDVolley, to discuss early sports specialization vs multi-sport athletes.

We also get the inside scoop on his new book "Avatar's Guide to Beach Volleyball."

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Links:

Avatar's Guide to Beach Volleyball - https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B017NB4RVG/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1447084353&sr=1-1&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&keywords=Avatar%27s+guide+to+beach+volleyball

Ryan's Blog -

http://ryan-doherty.com/

The Detrimental Effect of Early Sports Specialization -

http://changingthegameproject.com/is-it-wise-to-specialize/

Early vs Late Specialization -

http://sportsscientists.com/2011/04/early-vs-late-specialization-when-should-children-specialize-in-sport/

Long-Term Athlete Development -

http://www.humankinetics.com/excerpts/excerpts/late-specialization-is-recommended-for-most-sports

In this episode we talk with special guest Adam ONeil about preparing for harsh playing environments, visualization, and flow state.

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More questions from listeners, real and imaginary.

Topics include - Coaching between beach partners, attributes of a great head and assistant coach, coaching influences, can girls coach boys, book recommendations, how handle a bad call, and what role should a coach have in players’ lives.

So...lots of stuff in this one.

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We answer questions posed by listeners (real and make believe). Topics include practice planning, journaling, sitting vs standing, volleyball rules to change, and mistakes we've learned and grown from.

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We discuss playing the points game and searching for easier paths vs just competing.

Also, Nils tries to explain why cheating and throwing games is important.

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Preparing a great practice plan is hard (and needs 2 Parts!). So to point us in the right direction we brought in the big gun, Trevor Ragan @train_ugly and TrainUgly.com, to share his philosophies on practice and of course some Growth Mindset and Tiger Talk.

R.E.F.F.

Reps, Engagement, Focus, Feedback

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Lots of good Links:

Jungle Tiger - http://trainugly.com/jungle-tiger/

Peer Feedback - http://trainugly.com/portfolio/peerfeedback/

Block vs Random Practice - http://trainugly.com/portfolio/block-random-practice/

Praise and Growth Mindset - http://trainugly.com/portfolio/praise-and-mindsets/

And...well...everything on TrainUgly.com

Preparing a great practice plan is hard. So to point us in the right direction we brought in the big gun, Trevor Ragan @train_ugly and TrainUgly.com, to share his philosophies on practice and of course some Growth Mindset and Tiger Talk.

R.E.F.F.

Reps, Engagement, Focus, Feedback

Twitter - @coachyourbrain

Lots of good Links:

Jungle Tiger - http://trainugly.com/jungle-tiger/

Peer Feedback - http://trainugly.com/portfolio/peerfeedback/

Block vs Random Practice - http://trainugly.com/portfolio/block-random-practice/

Praise and Growth Mindset - http://trainugly.com/portfolio/praise-and-mindsets/

And...well...everything on TrainUgly.com

Sprints, Coach on One, throwing balls at their heads...we've tried many things to instill discipline on our teams. In today's episode we reconsider these and other techniques we use to push our teams to be their best.

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Part 2 of our discussion with volleyball player and biomedical scientist Dr. Ricky on the facts related to Supplements, Therapy, and Food.

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Lots of Links!

Ricky's Tedx Talk - “The Other Things” http://youtu.be/lxAIg8cG4Sc

http://www.logicalfallacies.info

Power Balance - https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/pseudoscience-sells/

Kineseo Tape - http://drricky.tumblr.com/post/124690359418/has-been-shown-to

Creatine Supplementation - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3963244/

Jimmy Kimmel - "What is Gluten?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdJFE1sp4Fw

Idiocracy - "Electrolytes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3boy_tLWeqA

Different Episode in which we are joined by volleyball player and biomedical scientist Dr. Ricky to pick his brain on the facts related to Supplements, Therapy, and Food.

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Lots of Links!

Ricky's Tedx Talk - “The Other Things” http://youtu.be/lxAIg8cG4Sc

http://www.logicalfallacies.info

Power Balance - https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/pseudoscience-sells/

Kineseo Tape - http://drricky.tumblr.com/post/124690359418/has-been-shown-to

Creatine Supplementation - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3963244/

Jimmy Kimmel - "What is Gluten?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdJFE1sp4Fw

Idiocracy - "Electrolytes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3boy_tLWeqA